These are great little cars man - just bought a 1.6 ghia auto and it's very nice indeed. Getting the cat stolen was a bummer but got it replaced cheaply enough. I've had loads of cars over the years - Jags, BMWs, Rovers, but this on balance is the one I like the most. Charming cars, glad someone's looking after them! Keep up the good work sir.
Thank you sir I really appreciated the positive comments I'm getting! They sure are brilliant cars, everything you could wish fir in a small package. Sure there's more swashbuckling cars out there but the Mk1 is a timeless design classic. I will continue the good work there will be more content soon time opening, the Rover 45 is giving me some headaches but slowly getting there. You'll enjoy a 1.6 auto a very underated variant.
This was my dad's who passed away in 2019 so I became its caretaker its only on 127 k and last Mot was a set of rear drop links. Last year was a big one tho. Full suspension since it was the original factory stuff from 23 years ago so cost over 500 quid. This year was a mere 30 for mot and 11 for a pair of links which I fitted myself. If you're on fb would love to send you some pics as you wouldn't belive the condition for its age. Still drives like a new car as well
@@usuallyfixingtinkering Yes! Love It! Won’t Sell It For Nothing. Has Leather Heated Seats,Heated Mirrors,Fog Lights,Rear Spoiler,Sun Roof.Bought The OEM Mud Flaps The Plastic Ones,Love Everything On This Cars,Specially The Heights From The Ground,Everything
I got myself a 1999 1.8 16v, 1st Gen, 4 door with the Ghia package with 72000 miles on the clock and I absolutely love it. Spent £2000 so far and that is including the £995 purchase of the car. I need to do the upper sump gasket now as the cowboy garage the previous owner took it to never changed the oil breather hose or valve, so the system got blocked due to the hose collapsing and the valve failing. This essentially blew out the seals but I have transformed it from what it was...
thats a very rare package these days a pre-facelift 4-door ghia 1.8! I can tell you from my data that only 958 ghias are on the road from 1999. Yours will be one of around 230 approx with a 1.8 petrol engine. Being the saloon, must rarer. Maybe even half that amount :) Keep up the good work, sounds like an amateur mistake to me!
@@usuallyfixingtinkering as you know I have a 1.6 Edge hatchback. But I would love to have the saloon model to! Looks smart, don't know always wanted one.
Hi I bought a 1.6 Mk 1 Focus Automatic (2004) for 550 Euros 3 years ago with 115'000 miles ,, all iv done is change the belt and water pump .. its passed its NCD no problems,, now its got 138'000 on the clock and still goes like new.. .. iv had 25 cars all different makes over the years and this car I think is one of the best and reliable out there ,, a classic,, PS surprisingly quiet fast also .. full tank 400 miles .
I'm not surprised there's far less to go wrong with them than most cars if it's time for its sheer age now. Great find sounds like you really enjoy it!
Hi there! My Focus is a '02 Turnier Ghia. 1.8 petrol moondust silver. I love it. Perfect suspension, great handling, 115bhp, far enough. I've just finished the rotten rear brakeline swap :-) Home serviceable car, with cheap spare parts. Cat conv for £100? Incredible.
My 2001 Focus came with a personalised to my specific car Environment and Safety certificate. Emissions 204g/km. Thankfully my car was registered literally 1 month before March 2001. If the EXACT same manufactured cars documentation happened over a week later it would be subject to the new rules. Old rules on road tax (cough, sorry, CO2 world saving green excise duty) a low rate for 1.5 litre car registered before 03/2001 pays £295 which I find absurd - it is designed to get cars into landfill. However if my own car was registered a couple of weeks after it was, despite its manufacturing date, it would have had the newer rules. Which is now Band K and £360 tax. People have to take into account the "green" rubbish with second hand cars and the road tax is higher than insurance for me.
Spot in, don't get me started on that! My Focus 1.6 auto - 192g/km! Band J - I believe its £320 a year. Pre-march 2001 much less than that. Its a complete trap and it has achieved that to some extent. There are way more Mk1s that survive from 2000/2001 (pre-emission taxed) than 2002 registrations, this is down to build quality but also the tax side of things. Have you got that certificate - keep it I've never seen one I suspect most people binned them a day after purchase!
Loving the info on your channel. Got mine booked in for it's timing belt, water pump, auxiliary belt and gearbox oil change. After I've saved up again will change the brake & power steering fluids and coolant. This is going to be a keeper so happy to spend the cash on it. It's definitely a modern classic in my eyes. Wish I still had my first car also, was a 1990 XR2i. Bought it at 5 years old. If I knew then and all that..
Welcolm buddy I hope you find lots of useful information! You can't go wrong but putting money into one of these it will pay you back in the long run! Oh don't worry I'm sure it's not as bad as scraping a Sierra sapphire coswirth in 2005 due to gearbox failure! One of my relatives regrets that decision every day!
@Usually Fixing & Tinkering Bloody hell, that's one major scrappage fail indeed!! My mate still regrets selling his saphire cosworth in 2008 for around 6k. It was well looked after but he fancied a change. I'm enjoying working through your videos and taking some pointers. Will finish the focus ones first before moving onto the Rover
I totally agree 100% with everything you are saying I love the mk1 ford focus I think they are amazing car. I have got a 2002 1.6 zetec mk1 ford focus and I have owned it for 12 years now and I have just sorned it off the road so I can do little rebuild on it
Thanks buddy, this is definetly an area that frustrates me about the Mk1, and many other decent cars from this era. Good luck with the rebuild, take your time and treat every small success like a big one :)
Thanks buddy, this is definetly an area that frustrates me about the Mk1, and many other decent cars from this era. Good luck with the rebuild, take your time and treat every small success like a big one :)
Got a lovey 1.4 celibration black sunroof i love it drives fantastic i would love bit more power but its fun eitherway...id love 1.8convert but have to see what i need .
As a mk1 owners group member as I've seen most ford's from same era such as fiestas and fusions and KAs even mine was going to the scrappy changed the timing belt serviced it soon to be having a some fresh paint undersealing and some mods I love it it's a 1.6 zetec from 2002 😁my first car was a fusion and I scrapped mine and now the prices have skyrocketed?? But focuses are still the same price
absolutely they're suffered really terribly even at relatively young ages, especially Ka's. My partner at the time had one and it was something from the 70's. It just turned to the earth extremely quickly before you could do anything about it. Lovely to see another example saved from the scrappy you must be loving it! Focus prices havn't gone up much because the general perception is still as "an old banger" but I think that's changing, especially as good examples are now getting harder to find - that's where competition comes in. Demand is going up but supply is down. So watch this space!
Middle and rear exhaust fitted recently, drove off from garage to no brakes, light on half a mile in, took it back, they fitted rear passenger brake pipe, obvious to me they caused it but cudn't prove or disprove, all i kept getting was you need to get rid, everything is seizing on it, it's got minamal rust just a tad on a wheelarch and bottom of 1 door which i will retreat, yes it's give me a few issues since its mot pass in oct but i want at least a year or 2 out of it
Its just an old car to most, mechanics will look at that car and see the £ of labour it would cost going forward. That is pretty true unless your going to do at least some of your own work then it becomes affordable.
@@usuallyfixingtinkering I got the impression with the garage also being car sales, he was trying to go down that road of selling a car, i just said my credit isn't great(actually ok) conversation ended lol
Got myself a mk1 1.6 zetec se ebony 3 door 132k from a mate he was going to scap it 3 years ago got it off him for £350 worth more now after a few minor repairs new drive shafts etc did the work myself I drive it everyday for work and weekly shop, £20 a week for fuel has never let me down, Apple CarPlay Sony head unit makes smiles for miles 😊
That is brilliant! There are many still going for scrap years too early because if unecomincal repair. What economical repair doesn't tell you is that it's just a waste. I'm glad it's working well for you a 3 door ebony is a nice special edition to get hold of. I believe you will have Leather heated seats too :)
@@usuallyfixingtinkering Leather heated seats, heated mirrors, parking sensors, Quick Clear windshield, AirCon regassed super cold, fitted new wishbone arms, drop links, track rod ends and a reverse camera, it drives like a car half its age not many on the market could be a future classic😁
@@Dre88116 that's a really nice spec sheet with all the toys you need! Its a classic now in the right condition, they will go up as demand increases for usable modern classics but supply of good examples goes down!
I just picked up a 3door 2003 1.8 petrol mp3 for 800 quid. 18.000 miles!!! 3 door the bodies got dings, scratches and bumps but no rust. Mot and service history is spot on. Need some advice on stereo upgrades just, no time to faff with wiring, soldering but happy to take off the odd trim to get DaB Aerial in.
Tall Paul i own a 2001 focus zetec 1,8ltr which i picked up for £650 with 28000 miles on it and full service history i have owned the car from 2014 and its now got 98,460 on and has not cost me much in parts just usual ones like discs rubber bushes brake pads and MOT s and still drives really well like it did when i bought it🚗👍
Hello there, greetins from Portugal. Here a focus 1.6 zetec they already go for 4.000 euros each and only currently 4 for sale. The st170 goes for 12.000 with only 1 for sale :)
@@usuallyfixingtinkering yes I am almost sure that's the reason. You guys in UK you had a LOT of Ford Cars bought all over the years but here in Europe people like to buy more Audi, VW and other brands. But here in Portugal the market of Cars is expensive, that's why I bought my st170 in Germany for 4k euros with some extras 🙂 I always said that you guys had a LOT of lucky to have an st170 so cheap 🙂
These are great little cars man - just bought a 1.6 ghia auto and it's very nice indeed. Getting the cat stolen was a bummer but got it replaced cheaply enough. I've had loads of cars over the years - Jags, BMWs, Rovers, but this on balance is the one I like the most. Charming cars, glad someone's looking after them! Keep up the good work sir.
Thank you sir I really appreciated the positive comments I'm getting! They sure are brilliant cars, everything you could wish fir in a small package. Sure there's more swashbuckling cars out there but the Mk1 is a timeless design classic. I will continue the good work there will be more content soon time opening, the Rover 45 is giving me some headaches but slowly getting there. You'll enjoy a 1.6 auto a very underated variant.
This was my dad's who passed away in 2019 so I became its caretaker its only on 127 k and last Mot was a set of rear drop links. Last year was a big one tho. Full suspension since it was the original factory stuff from 23 years ago so cost over 500 quid. This year was a mere 30 for mot and 11 for a pair of links which I fitted myself. If you're on fb would love to send you some pics as you wouldn't belive the condition for its age. Still drives like a new car as well
Got Mine, 03 ZTS 85K Had A Few Before.Still Look Fresh Now 2023
thats a very low mileage :)
@@usuallyfixingtinkering Yes! Love It! Won’t Sell It For Nothing. Has Leather Heated Seats,Heated Mirrors,Fog Lights,Rear Spoiler,Sun Roof.Bought The OEM Mud Flaps The Plastic Ones,Love Everything On This Cars,Specially The Heights From The Ground,Everything
@@rogergarcia4490 Sounds like you have the perfect car thats a very nice spec sheet :)
I got myself a 1999 1.8 16v, 1st Gen, 4 door with the Ghia package with 72000 miles on the clock and I absolutely love it. Spent £2000 so far and that is including the £995 purchase of the car. I need to do the upper sump gasket now as the cowboy garage the previous owner took it to never changed the oil breather hose or valve, so the system got blocked due to the hose collapsing and the valve failing. This essentially blew out the seals but I have transformed it from what it was...
thats a very rare package these days a pre-facelift 4-door ghia 1.8! I can tell you from my data that only 958 ghias are on the road from 1999. Yours will be one of around 230 approx with a 1.8 petrol engine. Being the saloon, must rarer. Maybe even half that amount :) Keep up the good work, sounds like an amateur mistake to me!
@@usuallyfixingtinkering as you know I have a 1.6 Edge hatchback.
But I would love to have the saloon model to! Looks smart, don't know always wanted one.
@@shanepatrick641 they're an acquired taste I think but certainly get my attention now
Hi I bought a 1.6 Mk 1 Focus Automatic (2004) for 550 Euros 3 years ago with 115'000 miles ,, all iv done is change the belt and water pump .. its passed its NCD no problems,, now its got 138'000 on the clock and still goes like new.. .. iv had 25 cars all different makes over the years and this car I think is one of the best and reliable out there ,, a classic,,
PS surprisingly quiet fast also .. full tank 400 miles .
I'm not surprised there's far less to go wrong with them than most cars if it's time for its sheer age now. Great find sounds like you really enjoy it!
Hi there!
My Focus is a '02 Turnier Ghia. 1.8 petrol moondust silver.
I love it. Perfect suspension, great handling, 115bhp, far enough.
I've just finished the rotten rear brakeline swap :-)
Home serviceable car, with cheap spare parts. Cat conv for £100? Incredible.
Those brake pipes are terrible above the tank for rotting! That's one big job out the way. Lovely car you have!
@@usuallyfixingtinkering THX! That's right, time consuming job. Ford should've used CuNi pipes there.
My 2001 Focus came with a personalised to my specific car Environment and Safety certificate. Emissions 204g/km.
Thankfully my car was registered literally 1 month before March 2001. If the EXACT same manufactured cars documentation happened over a week later it would be subject to the new rules.
Old rules on road tax (cough, sorry, CO2 world saving green excise duty) a low rate for 1.5 litre car registered before 03/2001 pays £295 which I find absurd - it is designed to get cars into landfill.
However if my own car was registered a couple of weeks after it was, despite its manufacturing date, it would have had the newer rules. Which is now Band K and £360 tax.
People have to take into account the "green" rubbish with second hand cars and the road tax is higher than insurance for me.
Spot in, don't get me started on that! My Focus 1.6 auto - 192g/km! Band J - I believe its £320 a year. Pre-march 2001 much less than that. Its a complete trap and it has achieved that to some extent. There are way more Mk1s that survive from 2000/2001 (pre-emission taxed) than 2002 registrations, this is down to build quality but also the tax side of things. Have you got that certificate - keep it I've never seen one I suspect most people binned them a day after purchase!
Loving the info on your channel. Got mine booked in for it's timing belt, water pump, auxiliary belt and gearbox oil change. After I've saved up again will change the brake & power steering fluids and coolant. This is going to be a keeper so happy to spend the cash on it. It's definitely a modern classic in my eyes.
Wish I still had my first car also, was a 1990 XR2i. Bought it at 5 years old. If I knew then and all that..
Welcolm buddy I hope you find lots of useful information! You can't go wrong but putting money into one of these it will pay you back in the long run! Oh don't worry I'm sure it's not as bad as scraping a Sierra sapphire coswirth in 2005 due to gearbox failure! One of my relatives regrets that decision every day!
@Usually Fixing & Tinkering Bloody hell, that's one major scrappage fail indeed!!
My mate still regrets selling his saphire cosworth in 2008 for around 6k. It was well looked after but he fancied a change.
I'm enjoying working through your videos and taking some pointers. Will finish the focus ones first before moving onto the Rover
@@Paul_Davies77 It was indeed, full or regret. I don't think people thought they would be worth much back then. Now we know better these days :)
I totally agree 100% with everything you are saying I love the mk1 ford focus I think they are amazing car. I have got a 2002 1.6 zetec mk1 ford focus and I have owned it for 12 years now and I have just sorned it off the road so I can do little rebuild on it
Thanks buddy, this is definetly an area that frustrates me about the Mk1, and many other decent cars from this era. Good luck with the rebuild, take your time and treat every small success like a big one :)
Thanks buddy, this is definetly an area that frustrates me about the Mk1, and many other decent cars from this era. Good luck with the rebuild, take your time and treat every small success like a big one :)
Got a lovey 1.4 celibration black sunroof i love it drives fantastic i would love bit more power but its fun eitherway...id love 1.8convert but have to see what i need .
As a mk1 owners group member as I've seen most ford's from same era such as fiestas and fusions and KAs even mine was going to the scrappy changed the timing belt serviced it soon to be having a some fresh paint undersealing and some mods I love it it's a 1.6 zetec from 2002 😁my first car was a fusion and I scrapped mine and now the prices have skyrocketed?? But focuses are still the same price
absolutely they're suffered really terribly even at relatively young ages, especially Ka's. My partner at the time had one and it was something from the 70's. It just turned to the earth extremely quickly before you could do anything about it. Lovely to see another example saved from the scrappy you must be loving it! Focus prices havn't gone up much because the general perception is still as "an old banger" but I think that's changing, especially as good examples are now getting harder to find - that's where competition comes in. Demand is going up but supply is down. So watch this space!
Middle and rear exhaust fitted recently, drove off from garage to no brakes, light on half a mile in, took it back, they fitted rear passenger brake pipe, obvious to me they caused it but cudn't prove or disprove, all i kept getting was you need to get rid, everything is seizing on it, it's got minamal rust just a tad on a wheelarch and bottom of 1 door which i will retreat, yes it's give me a few issues since its mot pass in oct but i want at least a year or 2 out of it
Its just an old car to most, mechanics will look at that car and see the £ of labour it would cost going forward. That is pretty true unless your going to do at least some of your own work then it becomes affordable.
@@usuallyfixingtinkering I got the impression with the garage also being car sales, he was trying to go down that road of selling a car, i just said my credit isn't great(actually ok) conversation ended lol
@@shaka7594 keep that Focus running dude! Look after it.
It would good if you find more after market front spoiler for them
I know
Got myself a mk1 1.6 zetec se ebony 3 door 132k from a mate he was going to scap it 3 years ago got it off him for £350 worth more now after a few minor repairs new drive shafts etc did the work myself I drive it everyday for work and weekly shop, £20 a week for fuel has never let me down, Apple CarPlay Sony head unit makes smiles for miles 😊
That is brilliant! There are many still going for scrap years too early because if unecomincal repair. What economical repair doesn't tell you is that it's just a waste. I'm glad it's working well for you a 3 door ebony is a nice special edition to get hold of. I believe you will have Leather heated seats too :)
@@usuallyfixingtinkering Leather heated seats, heated mirrors, parking sensors, Quick Clear windshield, AirCon regassed super cold, fitted new wishbone arms, drop links, track rod ends and a reverse camera, it drives like a car half its age not many on the market could be a future classic😁
@@Dre88116 that's a really nice spec sheet with all the toys you need! Its a classic now in the right condition, they will go up as demand increases for usable modern classics but supply of good examples goes down!
I just picked up a 3door 2003 1.8 petrol mp3 for 800 quid.
18.000 miles!!! 3 door the bodies got dings, scratches and bumps but no rust.
Mot and service history is spot on.
Need some advice on stereo upgrades just, no time to faff with wiring, soldering but happy to take off the odd trim to get DaB Aerial in.
Tall Paul i own a 2001 focus zetec 1,8ltr which i picked up for £650 with 28000 miles on it and full service history i have owned the car from 2014 and its now got 98,460 on and has not cost me much in parts just usual ones like discs rubber bushes brake pads and MOT s and still drives really well like it did when i bought it🚗👍
That's a lovely spec, the 1.8 are very nice engines. It's been used and I think that's the key with these cars :)
Hello there, greetins from Portugal. Here a focus 1.6 zetec they already go for 4.000 euros each and only currently 4 for sale. The st170 goes for 12.000 with only 1 for sale :)
By the way, I got one 1.6 in the garage and an st170 :p
I've been told in certain parts of Europe they are really expensive! Is that due to low numbers and higher demand?
@@usuallyfixingtinkering yes I am almost sure that's the reason. You guys in UK you had a LOT of Ford Cars bought all over the years but here in Europe people like to buy more Audi, VW and other brands. But here in Portugal the market of Cars is expensive, that's why I bought my st170 in Germany for 4k euros with some extras 🙂 I always said that you guys had a LOT of lucky to have an st170 so cheap 🙂
@@MrLendaAAAA wow I think we are lucky at those prices that's crazy!!
Got a 2002 2 litre ghia, lovely car
I've never driven the 2 litre and would love to get one. Nice and powerful I bet??
What is it like??
Ive just brought a low mileage 1.8 ghia saloon thats very clean , but like u said im finding the rubber is causing me trouble
Assuming bushes and brake hoses etc
still got mine so far no rust and drive well gone over clock 2times
brilliant!
Go Gray mark1 ford focus zetec 2004
Got a mk1 1999 x plate. Money no object it will stay on the road. Would love to send u a few pics
Are you on the focus Facebook group, or either there's a few?
@@usuallyfixingtinkering yes on the mk1 focus owners page mate. I posted a few days ago with some pics
Hi could u tell me how rare is a 2003 ford focus mk1 2.0 16v 5 door
As a rule of the thumb less than a few thousand for a 2.0 according to my stats. Have you got a model that would make it even more accurately?
@@usuallyfixingtinkering ghia and its a manual
i got mine for £450 because it need a new clutch
1 month ago
@@joshuaburton01 about 1,100 2003 ghia 2.0 manuals to my approximation:)
how many left of mk1 now i still got mine
In the UK? Around 60K
sport tdci in imperial blue is far better than a st170
they are really quick, it would give the ST a run for its money if well tuned, possibly a remap